triggerfinger - 8:02 pm on Jun 20, 2012 (gmt 0)

Hey Guys, quick question:

My developers recently put together a page which lists a grid of products and product information. They did so using tables and spacer gifs. Totally 1997, but nonetheless, I'm now trying to figure out whether this could have a negative SEO impact.

The code is something like this:


<table>
<tr>
<td>Product Name 1</td><td>Product Name 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Product Description 1</td><td>Product Description 2</td>
</tr>
etc, etc.
</table>


This is stopping us from being able to incorporate Schema.org markup, as one HTML element does not contain an entirety of Product content. The better, non-1997 version would use div and spans, but the question is whether Google/Bing will be able to determine which content is associated with which product?

Any experience with this type of issue?

Thanks,

-t